Where: Walker County, Georgia (34.8° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 66.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Caradoc (458.4 - 449.5 Ma)
• no information given
Environment/lithology: offshore; brown, yellow, argillaceous, silty limestone and red, yellow, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. T. Allen and J. G. Lester. 1957. Zonation of the Middle and Upper Ordovician strata in northwestern Georgia. Georgia State Division of Conservation, the Geological Survey Bulletin 66:1-104 [S. Holland/T. Hanson/T. Hanson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 33105: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Tori Hanson on 22.07.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Strophomenata | |
"Rafinesquina minnesotensis" = Oepikina minnesotensis
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Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824 | |
Chileata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Cyclospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Resserella sp., "Resserella rogata" = Paucicrura rogata
Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928 | |
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Hesperorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
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Stenolaemata | |
Nicholsonella sp. Ulrich 1890 | |
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Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Maclurites sp. Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
"Ophileta levata" = Ophileta laevata
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Ostracoda | |
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Rhodophyceae | |
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Tetradium | |
Tetradium sp. Dana 1846 |